Kate Winslet Details Sex Scene So Bonkers, The Crew Was Kicked Out For Laughing
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING There was “no biting” her tongue. Kate Winslet appeared more than happy to go into detail about how hilarious it was to shoot an awkward sex scene featured in the most recent episode of her HBO limited series “The Regime.” “We did have a couple of moments when things would happen that were so funny that people had to be sent out,” Winslet recently explained to reporters at a HBO press conference attended by The New York Post and the website Decider. Kate Winslet and Matthias Schoenaerts as Elena and Zubak in HBO’s “The Regime.” Photograph by Miya Mizuno/HBO In the dark comedy, Winslet plays Chancellor Elena Vernham, a charismatic — albeit completely bananas — dictator of a fictional central European country that is slowly unraveling due to her unhinged leadership. Throughout the show, Elena falls in love with Herbert Zubak, a corporal with terrible tattoos and a vague past that’s so violent, he’s earned the nickname “The Butcher.” In the beginning of Episode 5, it is revealed that Elena and Zubak are in a committed sexual relationship, but are having issues with how they physically express their feelings for one another. Photograph by Miya Mizuno/HBO “When we were shooting Episode 5, Elena and Zubak having sex, and she’s screaming at him, ‘No biting!